Dumb
- I just payed some old parking tickets from MN when I lived there last year, and I was having trouble paying online so I called customer service for help. The b!tch I was dealing with gave me the WORST instructions as if she was rapidly reading a manual to me. At one point she told me not to click a certain link, then to click it, then I clarified, "So I DO click the link?" "No!", she belted, then continued to blurt out more instructions. By the end of the conversation we were yelling at each other because I was, in fact, suppose to click the link. Only a recent occasion where I have been appalled by the stupidity and horrible customer service in MN.
- —Guest Mpls Hater
Depends where you live
- Yea I hate Minneapolis area there very arrogant and think there all that. But if you live in some other places in Minnesota I think we're pretty nice
- —Guest Sarah
mn sucks
- People are not friendly, people don't help, I mean the other day I asked my neighbor if she could give me a jump because my battery died due to the d@MN cold, just drove off, seriously people stare at me in Walmart because I'm African American, when I travel down an isle to get groceries, they turn the other way and exit hurredly, like there scared or something...when I got home, I told my wife that we are leaving and going back to Louisiana, don't know why she wanted to leave, her parents don't visit, people are rude, its cold and it sucks...just fact...I hate Minnesota...only if people were more open...but that won't happen
- —Guest ron
I hate MN in general
- What is up with the weird accents? I saw shrimp sandwich on a restaurant menu and immediately went to the restroom to barf. What is up with the pickles wrapped in ham? -16 degrees?!?!?!?! Really?!?!?!?
- —Guest MNhater
Uff da Shemp9971...
- It's like you've never lived anywhere else. After living on the west coast and always boasting about Minnesota, now that I'm back, I find people small minded and unimpressive. Guests from out west notice how people are always defending why they're here, like they're ashamed to be living here.
- —Guest Anoterlarson
neediness
- I guess the one thing that bothers me about M/SP (it doesn't rise to the level of 'hate') is how desperately needy some of the residents are. There seems to be this deep-seated insecurity about being in flyover country, or not getting 'respect'. If I walk around a beautiful lake on Labor Day weekend (there are 5 within 10 minutes of my house, probably 20+ within 1/2 hour), with a gorgeous blue sky overhead, get a 'good morning' from a decent % of the people I meet, and see a fox bounce across the path 50 yards in front of me....I can live with the fact that we're not on the "A" list of world cities. Who cares? Who needs that sort of affirmation to be happy? I tend to see the worst attitudes in the urban areas, and they *seem* to come from people who aren't really from here, or desperate wish they were somewhere else.
- —Guest steve
silly people
- I am a Minnesota native who has traveled the world as well as lived in other countries and states (currently in Colorado to avoid the obviously terrible winter). The winters are terrible, the hicks are annoying but Minnesota is a great place to live. As another responder said, you'll find ignorant, rude, arrogant, uncultured people wherever you go and to say that those folks congregate in Minnesota is ignorant and arrogant as well. There are positives and negatives to living in Minnesota as there are to any other place in the world. Maybe it just takes a native to really appreciate what Minnesota has to offer. If you don't like the winters or the cities, find a new place to live, we won't miss you.
- —Guest native
Reap what you Sow
- Holy negative comments. Yeah, Minnesotans can suck. And yeah, the weather, the drivers, and the passive aggressive attitudes suck, but that isn't Minnesota. You say we don't adhere too well to outsiders? Well I can guarantee you if you are a decent person, you will be treated with respect. If you are constantly being ridiculed, people are
you off because they don't care what they're saying is offensive, or the umteen other things people have mentioned-- it's probably because you're bringing it on yourself. To answer the original question, the worst part about living in the MSP area is people thinking the MSP area sucks. Do you ride bikes? Do you run? Do you have a dog to play with at the many dog parks? Do you like to walk or have dinner with your wife at an outdoor restaurant overlooking the city? Home is what you make it, and you are making it bad for the rest of us. Move to Texas if you think Minnesotans are arrogant. - —Guest caxe
born and raised in MN
- After living in a few large cities for many years, I moved back to my hometown of Minneapolis to be near family. I gave it 10 years there, and finally gave up on that place! You don't have to be from somewhere else to be made to feel like an outsider here, just moving away for any period of time works too. I spent years trying to focus on the positives of living there, but you can only lie to yourself for so long. despite all of my attempts to connect to Minnesota and it's people, I came up empty handed every time. Sadly, a few years ago, I gave up and left Minnesota for good. Within two years I made close friends, and have developed a deep sense of community in a city of 8 million people. I am now surrounded by kind, open minded, diverse & positive people again. The natives here have made me feel at home and are always willing to invite me into their homes and introduce me to their friends. Why is it so hard for Minnesotans to be sincerely welcoming to others? I don't get it
- —Guest Sunshine
Fact: MN does suck
- MN is a joke. The ones who were born/raised there don't have a clue why outsiders would make such true statements. Those who have experienced the world can laugh at them and move on. Think about it, why in the hell would you live there unless you were brain washed from childhood? I don't think the argumetn is "it's a crap hole to live in". Somehow MN people turned the argument into how it's "great" and I've never experienced someone try to persuade me as much as MN people. Why are you trying so hard? If it's fact you really not need say anything at all because it's known.
- —Guest Scott
I Hate Minneapolis/St. Paul!
- I have to agree that people from MN in general have poor manners and no respect for other people. I've lived in WI for 43 years and my small town is becoming infested with "mudducks!" I say infested because the more that move in the worse this town gets. They have absolutely no manners!! They act as if they don't have neighbors .. they make noise and prance around with their elitist attitudes and are just rude! I hate MN .. I hate people who were raised there.. I hate the fact they have no respect for others .. you want to be rude go back to MN and be rude .. GET OUT OF MY STATE!!!
- —Guest Cheese
MPLS/St Paul
- If people who move here do not like the local people of the Twin cities, don't blame the MN born people. Probably more than half the MPLS/ST Paul citizens are from other States". Get away from the twin Cities if you want to know Minnesotans.
- —Guest native mn
On hatin'
- Good luck "fitting in" if you didn't go to school here. i don't believe that MN peeps are intentionally rude or cliquish, it's just that they haven't been anywhere else. the ironic thing is that they like to behave like they live in a major city i.e. NYC or L.A but lack the smallest inkling to survive there. Seems that there's a 5 year waiting period before you become accepted. i passed my 5 year mark and suddenly i was "in". Too bad, you can all shove it along with your Midwest quaintness... hope you receive the same sh**** treatment as you give out if you ever leave MN
- —Guest tman
No having it both ways
- You might like MSP but it is not gonna like you. Being "from away" is a serious thing here. You're not gonna find your niche with these folks - only with other people from away. If you're an urban burnout like I am who can't take the crap but need the culture, you need to know that there is no happy place on this earth for you.
- —Guest pulltab
Kay
- I hate the holier than you attitude in Minnesota cities that drives micro-regulation of absolutely everything you may or may not do on YOUR property, based on whether any one anonymous neighbor might find it offensive.
- —Guest Kay
